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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6007645" data-attributes="member: 42582">I like your take on yuan-ti from the point of view of the players. But I think there is something to what others are saying (and what Wyatt) says about the point of view of the yuan-ti themselves.What I would like to pull off in a yuan-ti scenario would be to convey both (i) that the yuan-ti are mad serpent worshippers whose adoration is greatest for the most serpentine among them, and (ii) that the real engine of yuan-ti society and conquest is those who are most human, and hence that the real threat they pose is in virtue of their humanity rather than their serpentness - for all the reasons that you (KM) give.This would give a type of ironic twist to the yuan-ti's self-conception, whilst still preserving them as an insidious threat, which seems an appropriate effect to derive from using elder-god worshipping serpent people in one'e game.Now whether I could actually pull off what I describe above is another matter! RPGs are not always a medium well-suited to subtlety.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6007645, member: 42582"] I like your take on yuan-ti from the point of view of the players. But I think there is something to what others are saying (and what Wyatt) says about the point of view of the yuan-ti themselves. What I would like to pull off in a yuan-ti scenario would be to convey both (i) that the yuan-ti are mad serpent worshippers whose adoration is greatest for the most serpentine among them, and (ii) that the [I]real[/I] engine of yuan-ti society and conquest is those who are most human, and hence that the real threat they pose is in virtue of their humanity rather than their serpentness - for all the reasons that you (KM) give. This would give a type of ironic twist to the yuan-ti's self-conception, whilst still preserving them as an insidious threat, which seems an appropriate effect to derive from using elder-god worshipping serpent people in one'e game. Now whether I could actually pull off what I describe above is another matter! RPGs are not always a medium well-suited to subtlety. [/QUOTE]

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